Degraded oil in Mississippi Sound tests positive for dispersants, says lawyer
(Photo credit Jerry Moran\Native Orleanian)
By Ben Raines
The Press Register
Lumpy, degraded oil collected in the Mississippi Sound has tested positive for several of the main ingredients in the Corexit dispersant used in connection with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, according to scientists working for a New Orleans-based lawyer.
Officials with the federal government and BP PLC have maintained throughout the oil spill that no dispersant products have been used near shorelines in Alabama or Mississippi.
“It is difficult to comment on testing conducted by third parties,” BP spokeswoman Dawn Patience wrote in an e-mail. “Throughout the response period, we have worked hand-in-hand and under the direction of the Coast Guard and EPA on the use of dispersants.”
“We saw birds diving over a patch of oil. I’d never seen it that thick before. It looked like cauliflower. I had never seen it that texture before,” Moran said. “There was a rainbow sheen around us, a really thick, colorful sheen.”
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